Variable dimensions
A variable dimension is a size with a name, like width or wall. Every size that uses the name follows it: change the number once and they all change.
Making them
- Make it a variable
- Names a size where you typed it.
- Right-click a dimension in a sketch, or a number in a tool window.
- Choose Make it a variable… and type a name.
- Or type the name with the number straight into the box: width = 50.
- Use one in a size
- Any size box takes a name, or a formula of names, in place of a number.
- Open a tool, or double-click a dimension in a sketch.
- Type the name, for example width, or a formula, for example width - 2 * wall.
- Press OK. The size now follows the name.
- Variable Dimensions
- The list of every variable in the part, on its own button on the top bar (VAR. DIM.), on the Part, Sheet metal and sketch bars.
- Click Variable Dimensions.
- Change a number and the part rebuilds as you watch.
- Rename one: every size that uses it follows the new name.
- Each one lists what uses it. Deleting one says what it takes with it.
Sliders for other people
- Others can change this
- Turns a variable into a slider on the page you share.
- In Variable Dimensions, tick Others can change this beside the name.
- Type how it is shown (for example Width), the lowest and highest number, the step and the unit.
- For an option such as magnet holes, set the unit to switch: 1 is on, 0 is off. The shared page shows a tick box.
- Press Share on the top bar. It lists the sizes others can change.
- Copy private link, or Publish, to send the page. People who open it move the sliders and get their own part.